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...company's corporate director of health, safety and environmental affairs, conceded that the Indian facility lacked the computerized warning system used at a sister plant in Institute, W. Va. Moreover, according to a former Indian executive of Union Carbide India, the Bhopal plant was furnished with only one manual, back-up alarm system instead of the four-stage alarm system reportedly required...
Ever since its existence became known last October, the CIA'S how-to book for Nicaraguan rebels, Psychological Operations in Guerrilla War, has been high profile. When it was being distributed in Nicaragua, however, it seems the manual was also highflying. Congressional investigators revealed last week that packets of the controversial booklets were attached to about 100 specially designed balloons and floated from neighboring Honduras to Nicaragua last March to scare the leftist Sandinista government by creating the impression that the Washington-backed rebel effort was more widespread than it was. The airborne handbooks, coated in plastic to make...
Despite the complexity of converting visuals into numbers, coders say that the computer procedures are a quantum leap over the all-manual page assembly of the past. "This method is more exact," explains Coder Steve Feeback. "The computer can align things more precisely than...
...Cammarata hills to fight the Romans. A skeleton dug out of the rocky soil is said to have belonged to one of Hannibal's elephants. The novel's hero, Turi Guiliano, is a Latin Robin Hood who can recite the Song of Roland and the basic guerrilla manual with matching ease. When he is not slipping into Montelepre for his mother's cooking and the attractions of a young widow, Turi muses under starry skies: "He no longer doubted that he had some magnificent destiny before him. He shared the magic of those medieval heroes who could...
...convincingly it can make amends with Government officials. Last week the agency approved PBA's initial plan for bringing its operating procedures into line and allowed the airline to resume some flights. PBA's plan, though, requires the airline to retest its pilots and rewrite its training manual and may take weeks to accomplish. Meanwhile, PBA's competitors are already scooping up its customers...